Travels in Paradise

Main menu

Post navigation

Mundane Monday: In My Backyard

Jithin at Photrablogger’s ‘Mundane Monday Challenge‘ is to find “beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.” Maybe my everyday mundane things aren’t quite the same as yours, and I suppose when it comes to alligators, beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder. Yesterday, Mr. A got brave and decided to climb out of the water and do a bit of sunbathing on the neighbour’s grass. He started out with his eyes open, on the alert to see if he’d been noticed by anyone. He seemed to be looking straight at me, probably sizing me up for breakfast. I think he fancies me!

After a while, he relaxed and snoozed a few hours away in the sunshine, until a sudden heavy downpour of rain woke him up.

He then slithered back into the water and had a little cruise around before returning to his lair, which I think must be somewhere along the edge of the golf course. I wouldn’t imagine that golfers here go fishing around in the water for lost golf balls.

Here’s a cute joke to make you smile this Monday morning. “Who gives alligators their Christmas presents? ……………”Santa Jaws!” 🙂

This was anything but mundane,Sylvia! 🙂
I like Ty o watch all kinds of creatures but the alligator (and crocodiles) are not my favorite. Your commentary makes it all worthwhile along with great photos.

I’d love to be able to top that by telling you about the tyrannosaurus in our back yard or something, but I’m afraid like virtually everybody else on this thread, an alligator is definitely not mundane for me. Indeed, I get pretty excited about seeing a butterfly!

Yes, I read your latest post a little earlier and felt terrible because we’d just been talking about lizards the previous day. I shouldn’t say anything about egrets now or that alligator nearby will probably grab it.

Oh wow! Just the thought of an alligator in my backyard gives me the willies. Yikes! I hope you had a long range lens on that camera of yours when you took these photos, Sylvia! I am not too fond of those critters. Um no. But your images are fantastic!!! 🙂 ❤

Having lived in the past in a place where crocodiles were frequent visitors, I just find your leathery friend a little creepy and not to be trusted. I do hope the golfers are careful. Do alligators actually take people like crocs do?

I don’t believe that alligators are aggressive like crocodiles. I think they would go for small dogs, but people here don’t let their dogs go outside by the water. Today, Mr. A had just settled himself on the bank for a snooze, when the garden service arrived to cut the hedges. He just slid back into the lake and went for a swim. Having said that, if I saw him outside next to my patio, I wouldn’t open the door to say “hello.” 😀

Santa Jaws? Is that the best you could do? I don’t think we would ever call the sight of an alligator mundane. Of course we live in the desert so a mundane Monday might be the sight of a tarantula or scorpion or even a coyote. But never an alligator!

OMG! I would not be very excited to see that in my backyard. I guess it’s what you are used too. When I lived in upstate NY, the foothills of the Adirondack were in my backyard. Twice I saw and came a little too close to a mountain lion and once a bear! The other little creatures like foxes, wild turkey and deer (…) were just adorable and nothing to be really concerned about.

I would not like a bear in my trash can. The one I saw did not come close at all and when I walked out to get a better look, it walked away. The one mountain lion though was very close to me. I was not afraid at the moment, I love felines but that night I was unable to sleep realizing how dangerous that encounter was. It actually hissed at me.

Yikes, Sylvia. Your idea of mundane is definitely a long chalk from mine, where a small toad or a slow worm are the largest reptiles to be confronted by me, and even they can make me jump. Great shots.

Mundane Monday should be called Mad Monday Sylvia!! Lol!!! But I agree with you about the alligators being beautiful, just not about them being mundane! 🙂
It’s a bit like me posting ‘Nessie!!!’ LOL!! 🙂